Cybulski Release Status Explained
Cybulski Community Reintegration Center is an active CT DOC Level 2 facility in Somers. Its name describes an institutional role, not proof that every resident has been released. A person may move to Cybulski while preparing for discharge or while progressing through a lower-security stage. The person remains within the state correctional system until the record shows a community placement, parole, special parole, another form of supervised release, or discharge.
This distinction prevents a common error. A facility change can be a transfer. Community supervision, by contrast, allows a person to live outside prison while remaining subject to correctional conditions. Full discharge is different again because the applicable CT DOC custody or supervision has ended. Read the status and location fields with each date instead of assuming that a move to Cybulski was the release event.
Find Cybulski Release Records
The correct online starting point is the CT DOC Inmate Information Search. Connecticut uses a unified correctional system, so there is no separate Tolland County sheriff roster and no Cybulski recent-release feed. Search statewide even when the person was sentenced in the Tolland Judicial District or last known in Somers.
- Use the CT DOC inmate number whenever it is available.
- Otherwise, search the last name and narrow the results with first name and date of birth.
- Verify status, current location, and identity before reading the release fields.
- Compare Estimated Release Date with Maximum Release Date and Special Parole End Date.
- Check for a detainer or another location that may show continued custody.
- Confirm an unclear event through VINE, the court docket, supervision records, or CT DOC FOI.
Estimated Release Date is a projected field. It may change with earned credit, a parole decision, discipline, a sentence correction, or a detainer. Special Parole End Date is not the prison exit date. It marks when a court-imposed post-prison supervision term ends. Current location is equally important. A new institution or approved program can show movement without full discharge.
CT DOC reports daily updates but also warns that public information may not show current status. For a release believed to have happened very recently, compare a person-specific Connecticut VINE result and the relevant court docket. Note: A missing Cybulski result does not prove release, since protected or non-DOC records may require another channel.
Cybulski Release Planning Timeline
Reentry planning is a defining part of the Cybulski record context. CT DOC Offender Reentry Services says each correctional facility has a full-time Reentry Counselor. It also says more intensive reentry work occurs during the eighteen months before release. A separate CT DOC Transitional Services source says discharge planning begins at least forty-five days before release.
Those planning periods can create useful records without proving that release has occurred. A counselor may help address identification, benefits, services, or transition needs while the person remains confined. The discharge plan can also point toward community supervision or another approved placement. Treat it as evidence of preparation. The actual custody outcome still comes from status, location, release or discharge data, and the receiving supervision record.
- Reentry
- Planning and support for a person's move from confinement toward the community.
- Parole
- Conditional community release approved before the prison term expires.
- Special parole
- A court-imposed supervision period that follows prison.
- Discharge
- The end of the applicable correctional custody or supervision.
A person can therefore appear close to release for months without a fixed exit day. The Cybulski name should never replace a person-specific check. Note: Planning dates explain the transition process, while CT DOC status establishes whether confinement has ended.
Request Cybulski Release Records
A written CT DOC request is the strongest fallback when the online search does not identify the exact event. Use External Affairs Freedom of Information and describe the existing records sought. Include the full name, inmate number if known, and a practical date range. Ask for public incarceration dates, movement history, the release or discharge date, release type if public, and any public transfer or detainer entry.
CT DOC External Affairs FOI
24 Wolcott Hill Road
Wethersfield, CT 06109
Phone: (860) 692-6290
Fax: (860) 692-7873
Movement history is useful for Cybulski because it can separate arrival at the reintegration center from later community release. It may show a move from Osborn or another prison, time at Cybulski, and a later transfer or discharge entry. If parole was the outcome, BOPP records may add the hearing decision and conditions. The court docket adds the sentence and disposition.
Connecticut law permits state-agency plain-copy charges up to twenty-five cents per page, while computer records can involve certain actual costs. Request an estimate for a large history. A narrow request focused on dates and movements often answers the release question more directly than asking for an entire correctional file.
Cybulski Records and Contact
The official Cybulski facility page identifies the active Somers center, its security level, and its contact information. The center's main line is useful for suitable facility questions. The statewide search, Public Information office, and FOI unit remain the proper channels for documented release status and record copies.
Cybulski Community Reintegration Center
264 Bilton Road
Somers, CT 06071
Phone: (860) 763-6500
Fax: (860) 763-6511
Connecticut DOC Security Level 2
The same official source provides the facility view below.

CT DOC Public Information lists (860) 692-7780 and weekday service from 8:00 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. That office can help with the public inmate-information system. It should not be confused with BOPP, which handles parole decisions, or the Judicial Branch, which supplies court disposition records.
Confirm Cybulski Community Release
The confirmation route changes with the event. VINE can send a custody-change notice, but it is not a complete movement archive. The Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles can show a hearing or parole decision. A voted-to-parole date is an “on or after” date, so it does not guarantee release on that exact calendar day. CT DOC status should still show whether the correctional change occurred.
| Record clue | What it may mean | Next check |
|---|---|---|
| Cybulski listed as location | The person remains at a CT DOC facility | Read current status and date fields |
| Community program | A supervised correctional placement may have begun | Confirm DOC status and program terms |
| Parole or special parole | The person is outside prison but supervised | Use CT DOC and BOPP records |
| Discharged | The applicable correctional term ended | Request the dated discharge record if needed |
| Detainer or transfer | Another authority or site may hold the person | Identify the receiving system |
The Judicial Branch conviction search can be narrowed to Tolland Judicial District or Rockville Geographical Area 19 when those courts handled the case. Yet Cybulski holds people from the statewide system, so another court may be correct. The Tolland County release-record overview sets out the broader local and statewide path.
Has placement at Cybulski ended? A new location may mean transfer, and a supervision field may mean community release with conditions. Match the DOC status to the court and parole record before reaching a conclusion.
Tolland Jail History Clarified
The Old Tolland County Jail helps explain why modern Cybulski searches are sometimes framed as county-jail searches. The historical site at Tolland Green had a cellblock dating to 1856, an attached 1893 jailer's home, and thirty-two original cells. It was used until 1968 and now operates as a museum. It has no current custody or release role.
Cybulski belongs to the later statewide model. Connecticut abolished county government, and CT DOC operates the modern institutions in Somers. Current release confirmation therefore comes from CT DOC, VINE, BOPP, the courts, police records for brief arrest events, or federal systems when facts support a handoff. No Tolland County sheriff release list exists to replace those sources.
This difference is more than a label. Historical jail material can answer local-history questions, but it cannot confirm a living person's custody status. Cybulski records must be read as state correctional records. Note: Use the museum for history and CT DOC for every current Cybulski release question.